Sega's excellent first-person horror game Alien: Isolation was demoed by developer The Creative Assembly in VR, though the game never actually received any VR support at, or after, launch. The developer later explained that this was simply a proof of concept, and the game sadly didn't sell well enough to receive post-launch VR support or a sequel

That hasn't stopped dedicated modder Nibre from finishing the work The Creative Assembly started back in 2014. With their latest mod, MotherVR, we can get a good sense of what Alien: Isolation would look like had the developer been able to realise its VR vision.

As you can see in the video above, this mod allows you to peek around corners with positional head-tracking. You can also look around while in the middle of a hacking sequence, something one couldn't do in the official release where the player's eyes were glued to their device's screen.

Nibre noted that MotherVR is designed to be played while seated. "By playing this Mod any other way than seated, you do so at your own risk," the modder said on GitHub. "You may be able to stomach this standing, but I absolutely cannot recommend it at this time. Roomscale does not work whatsoever right now."

Mother VR is currently available on Oculus Rift, though Nibre would like to add Vive support in the futureFurthermore, the current version of Mother VR is only compatible with an Xbox controller or mouse and keyboard but the modder hopes to one day add motion controls with Oculus Touch.

Worked really, really well in Resident Evil 7 apparently. Must be intuitive as heck.

Why the hell would it make you sick? VR makes you sick if the vision moves without your head moving. Aiming with your head keeps everything 1:1. If anything it would be the least sick-inducing way of aiming. Your head moves, your crosshair moves.

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I played through this in VR on the dk2 when it was released. I think it took a few years off of my life. It is pretty cool but I also don't know if I can fully recommend it. Maybe a little too intense.

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Played the first 15 minutes. The game looks incredible in VR. Probably the best looking game I've seen in VR so far, and the framerate is buttery smooth. However, it currently has a major problem, and that's the inability to look around in increments as in RE7. VR legs or not, this is a major cause of motion sickness. Couldn't play another minute.